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 Sep 9 2005, 06:50 PM
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okay i'm a really big anime fan ..but wth do these japanese worsd mean.. liek i'm searching through sum anime. and all these genras and stuf.. but i ahve no idea wut they mean
Shonen,Shojo,Ecchi,Mecha ,Parody,Yaoi and Yuri |
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Sep 9 2005, 09:06 PM
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 Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
those are terms for different genres of anime/manga
Shonen manga is for boys Shoujo manga is for gilrs Mecha--giant robots Ecchi or Hentail is erotica Yaoi--gay Yuri--lesbian Parody is a version of a published manga or manga characters. usually made to criticize the original storylines. also, some japanese people do not like when others say "jap". they'd rather you say/spell out "japanese". just fyi. |
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Sep 9 2005, 09:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 162 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 65,048 |
oh i seee... thnx... wow.. japanese get offended by that wow.. didn;t know... that.. and i'm sorry.. i think.. next time i'll spell out it out as japanese.. instead of jap.
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Sep 9 2005, 10:26 PM
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 What up, dawg? Group: Member Posts: 235 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 19,480 |
ECCHI!! ECCHI!!
Rin-chan ps- Parody isn't a Japanese word lol And shoujo doesn't have to be for girls, it's just more light hearted stories with less action and more focused on romance and modern day characters. Shonen is filled with action, adventure, battles, blood, language, perversion, some subtle romance, and can take place in the past, future or an Alternate Universe (AU) Rin-chan |
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Sep 9 2005, 10:30 PM
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 My name's Katt. Nice to meet you! Group: Member Posts: 3,826 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 93,674 |
Um, I think this topic can be closed since the question's already been answered. And I never really thought of jap as an ethnic slur or something of that sort. It's just a shortening of the word.. It's hard to type out Japanese everytime.
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Sep 11 2005, 08:35 PM
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Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
some people think it's a kind of disrepect. i was blowned away by embarrassment by a japanese years ago when i said love "jap animation" to a friend. i thought maybe only that guy had a problem with it, but it seems quite a few share his sentiments. i just don't want someone else getting chewed out for saying "jap".
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Sep 12 2005, 05:01 PM
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SOS Brigade!! Group: Member Posts: 2,573 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 47,775 |
Haha thats why don't call it japanese animation and actually call it anime. Makes things a lot lot easier =P
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Sep 12 2005, 09:10 PM
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About the racial slur, Jap is kinda a racial slur. If you want to say japanese, but shorter, I guess JP should be ok.
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Sep 13 2005, 03:08 PM
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 The Rose In The Darknes Group: Member Posts: 66 Joined: Sep 2005 Member No: 234,254 |
Actually Jap isn't always a racial slur and can be taken that way by people who don't like it. But that doesn't mean they meant it like that and it was stated they didn't mean for it to be a recial slur. o_O I've never been chewed out or found someone that cared that I spelt something 'Jap' it is a lot easier to type than 'Japanese.' And it's not always a racial slur if it's spelt out either. Like I said, just a way of shortening something like 'lol' or 'brb' it's just an easier way of saying it. oO Less typing and trouble involved.
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